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Things evolution could never invent

—————————1 - FACTS WHICH CANNOT BE DENIED

It is commonly said that evolution and Creation are both theo-ries. A “theory” has no definite proof in its support, only some evi-dence favoring it. In this book, we have found that evolution has noevidence supporting it and a ton of facts which destroy it.

But Creation is different. It has a mammoth number of factsfrom the natural world supporting it. And those facts do not fit anyother possible explanation of galactic origin.

Regardless of what the evolutionists may claim, Creation is nota theory; it is a proven scientific fact.

To fill space at the end of the chapters in this book, a samplingof facts from the natural world have been included; each of whichcould only be explained by Creation. (They are all listed in the Natu-ral History Index, which begins on page 982.)

Here are three more. As you read them, be open-minded andthink. Accept the reality of the situation. Our world was made by asuper-powerful, massively intelligent Creator. The world did notmake itself.

ANATOMY OF A WORKER BEE

(1) Compound eyes able to analyze polarized light for naviga-tion and flower recognition. (2) Three additional eyes for naviga-tion. (3) Two antennae for smell and touch. (4) Grooves on frontlegs to clean antennae. (5) Tube-like proboscis to suck in nectarand water. When not in use, it curls back under the head. (6) Two

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jars (mandibles) to hold, crush, and form wax. (7) Honey tank fortemporary storage of nectar. (8) Enzymes in honey tank which willultimately change that nectar into honey. (9) Glands in abdomenproduce beeswax, which is secreted as scales on rear body. (10)Five segmented legs which can turn in any needed direction. (11)Pronged claws, on each foot, to cling to flowers. (12) Glands inhead make royal jelly. (13) Glands in body make glue. (14) Hairson head, thorax, and legs to collect pollen. (15) Pollen baskets onrear legs to collect pollen. (16) Several different structures to col-lect pollen. (17) Spurs to pack it down. (18) Row of hooks on trail-ing edges of front wings, which, hooking to rear wings in flight,provide better flying power. (19) Barbed poison sting, to defendthe bee and the hive. (20) An enormous library of inherited knowl-edge regarding: how to grow up; make hives and cells; nurse in-fants; aid queen bee; analyze, locate, and impart information onhow to find the flowers; navigate by polarized and other light; col-lect materials in the field; guard the hive; detect and overcome en-emies;—and lots more!

How can a honeycomb have walls which are only 1/350th aninch [.007 cm] thick, yet be able to support 30 times their ownweight?

How can a strong, healthy colony have 50,000 to 60,000 bees—yet all are able to work together at a great variety of tasks withoutany instructors or supervisors?

How can a honeybee identify a flavor as sweet, sour, salty, orbitter? How can it correctly identify a flower species and only visitthat species on each trip into the field—while passing up tasty op-portunities of other species that it finds en route?

All these mysteries and more are found in the life of the bee. Ahoneybee averages 14 miles [22.5 km] per hour in flight, yet col-lects enough nectar in its lifetime to make about 1/10th of a pound[.045kg] of honey. In order to make a pound of honey, a bee livingclose to clover fields would have to travel 13,000 miles [20,920km], or 4 times the distance from New York City to San Francisco!

With all this high-tech equipment on each bee, surely it musthave taken countless ages for the little bee to evolve every part of it.Yet, not long ago, a very ancient bee was found encased in amber.Analyzing it, scientists decided that, although it dated back to the

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beginning of flowering plants, it was just like modern bees! So, asfar back in the past as we can go, we find that bees are just like beestoday!

PORTRAIT FROG

At random, we will select one of several hundred examples wecould cite.

The South American false-eyed frog is an interesting creature.Generally about 3 inches [7.62 cm] long, it is brown, black, blue,gray, and white! Drops of each color are on its skin, and it cansuddenly change from one of these colors to the others, simply bymasking out certain color spots.

The change-color effect that this frog regularly produces is to-tally amazing and completely unexplainable by any kind of evolu-tionary theory.

The frog will be sitting in the jungle minding its own business,when an enemy, such as a snake or rat, will come along.

Instantly, that frog will jump and turn around, so that its back isnow facing the intruder. In that same instance, the frog changed itscolors!

Now the enemy sees a big head, nose, mouth, and two blackand blues eyes!

All this looks so real—with even a black pupil with a blue irisaround it. Yet the frog cannot see any of this, for the very highlyintelligently designed markings are on its back!

The normal sitting position of this frog is head high and backlow. But when the predator comes, he quickly turns around, so hisback faces the predator! In addition, the frog puts his head low tothe ground and his hind parts high. In this position, to the enemyviewing him, he appears to be a large rat’s head! In just the rightlocation is that face and eyes staring at you!

The frog’s hind legs are tucked away together underneath hiseyes—and they look like a large mouth! As he moves his hind legs,the mouth appears to move! The part of the frog’s body that oncewas a tadpole’s tail—now looks like a perfectly formed nose; andit is just at the right location!

To the side of the fake face, there appear long claws! These arethe frog’s toes! As the frog tucks his legs to the sides of his body, hepurposely lifts up two toes from each hind foot—and curls them

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out, so they will look like a couple of weird hooks.And the frog does all this in one second!At this, the predator leaves, feeling quite defeated. But that which

it left behind is a tasty, defenseless, weak frog which can turn aroundquickly, but cannot hop away very fast.

The frog will never see that face on itself, so it did not put theface there. Someone very intelligent put that face there! And theface was put there by being programmed into its genes.

Well, there it is. And it is truly incredible.How could that small, ignorant frog, with hardly enough brains

to cover your little fingernail do that?Could that frog possibly be intelligent enough to draw a por-

trait on the ground beneath it? No, it could not. Could it do it inliving color? No!

Then how could it do it on its own back?There is no human being in the world smart enough—unaided

and without mirrors—to draw anything worthwhile on his own back.How then could a frog do it?

It cannot see its back, just as you cannot see yours. The task isan impossible one. And, to make matters more impossible, it doesit without hands! Could you, unaided by devices or others, accu-rately draw a picture on your back? No. Could you do it simply bymaking colors to emerge on the skin? A thousand times, No.

“Portrait frog”! This is the motion-picture frog! And the entireprocess occurs on its back, where it will never see what is happen-ing! And it would not have the brains to design or prepare this full-color, action pantomime even if it could see it.

Someone will comment that frogs learn this by watching thebacks of other frogs. But the picture is only formed amid the des-perate crisis of encountering an enemy about to leap upon it. Onlythe enemy sees the picture; at no other time is the picture formed.

All scientists will agree that this frog does not do these thingsbecause of intelligence, but as a result of coding within its DNA.How did that coding get there? It requires intelligence to produce acode. Random codes are meaningless and designs never arise thoughrandom activity. They require intelligent planning. Genetic codeswithin living creatures are the most complicated for humans to de-

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vise and fabricate.The facts are clear. God made that frog, and He made all other

living creatures also. Only His careful thought could produce andimplant those codes and the physical systems they call for.

There can be no other answer.THE PALOLO WORM

As our third and last example, we will tell you about a lowlyblind worm who lives all but a few days of his life in the blackdepths of the ocean.

The palolo worm is as incredible as many other creatures. Ran-domness could never produce this. Neither natural selection (theproper name for it is “random accidents”) nor mutations could in-vent the palolo worm.

Palolo worms live in coral reefs off the Samoan and Fijian Is-lands in the south Pacific. Twice a year, with astounding regularity,half of this worm develops into another animal with its own set ofeyes, floats to the surface on an exact two days in one or the other oftwo months in the year, and then spawns!

Yet these worms live in total darkness and isolation in coralholes deep within the ocean, have no means of communicating withone another, nor of knowing time—not even whether it is night orday! How can they know when it is time to break apart for thespawning season? Here is the story of the Palolo worm:

The palolo worm (Eunice virdis) measures about 16 inches[41cm] long. It lives in billions in the coral reefs of Fiji and Samoain the Southwestern Pacific. The head of an individual worm hasseveral sensory tentacles and teeth in its pharynx. Males are red-dish-brown and females are bluish-green. These worms go downinto the deep coral atolls and riddle it with their tiny, isolated tubes.They also burrow under rocks and into crevices. Once settled intotheir homes, these creatures catch passing food—small polyps—with their “tails” while their heads are buried inside the coral orbetween rock.

The body of one of these worms is divided into segments, likean earthworm’s body; and each contains a set of the organs neces-sary for life. But reproductive glands only develop in rear segments.

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inside the coral, decides that the time has come for action. The backhalf of the palolo worm alters drastically. Muscles and other inter-nal organs in each segment grow rapidly. Then the palolo wormpartially backs out of its tunnel and the outer half breaks off. By thattime, the other half has grown its own set of eyes! Once separatedfrom the rest of the worm, the broken-off half swims to the surface.(Down below in the coral, the “other half” grows a new back halfand continues on with life.)

On reaching the surface, the free-swimming halves break open;their eggs and sperm float in the water; and fertilization occurs.The empty skins sink to the bottom, devoured by fish as they go.Soon, free-swimming larvae develop and, becoming full grownpalolo worms, they sink deep into the ocean and burrow into thereefs.

We have here a creature which stays at home while sending offpart of itself to a distant location to produce offspring. That is as-tounding enough. But the most amazing part is the clockwork in-volved in all this! The success of this technique depends upon tim-ing. If the worms are to achieve cross-fertilization, they all mustdetach their hind parts simultaneously. So all those worm segmentsare released at exactly the same time each year!

Swarming occurs at exactly the neap tides which occur in Oc-tober and November. (Some of the spawning occurs in October,but mostly in November.) It occurs at dawn on the day before andthe day on which the moon is in its last quarter.

Suddenly, all the half-worms are released into the ocean. Swim-ming to the surface and bursting open, the sea briefly becomes awrithing mass of billions of worms and is milky with eggs and sperm.

The timing is exquisite.People living in Samoa and Fiji watch closely as these dates

approach. When the worms come to the surface, boats are sent outto catch vast numbers of them. They are shared around; festivalsare held, and the worms are eaten raw or cooked. In Fiji, the Scar-let aloals and the seasea flowers both bloom. This is the signal thatthe worms are about to rise to the surface! Then, each morning, thenationals watch for the sun to be on the horizon just as day breaks.Ten days after this—exactly ten days—the palolo worms will spawn.

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The first swarm is called Mbalolo lailai (little palolo), and the sec-ond is Mbalolo levu (large palolo). On the island of Savaii, theswarming is predicted by the land crabs. Exactly three days beforethe palolo worms come to the surface, all the land crabs on theisland mass migrate down to the sea to spawn.

Throughout those islands, the nationals know to arise early onthe right day. An hour or so before dawn, some will begin wadingin darkness, searching the water with torches for evidence of whatwill begin within an hour. Even before the night pales into dawn,green wriggling strings will begin to appear in the black water. Flash-lights reveal them, vertically wriggling upward toward the surface.Shouts are raised; the palolo worms have been seen! People whohave been sleeping on the beaches awake. Gathering up their nets,scoops, and pails, they wade out into the water. Dawn quickly fol-lows, and now the number of worms increases astronomically! Bil-lions of worms have risen and are floating on large expanses of theocean’s surface. The sea actually becomes curdled several inchesdeep with these tiny creatures;—yet only a half hour before therewere hardly any, and absolutely none before that for nearly a year.The people ladle them into buckets, as large fish swim in and excit-edly take their share.

People and fish must work fast; an hour before there werenone,—and already the worms are breaking to pieces! As their thinbody walls rupture, the eggs and sperms come out and give a milkyhue to the blue-green ocean. Quickly, the empty worm bodies falldownward into the ocean and disappear.

Within half-an-hour after the worms first appear, they are gone,—and only eggs and sperm remain.

Scientists have tried to figure out how the palolo worm calcu-lates the time of spawning so accurately. But there is just no an-swer. The worms cannot watch the phases of the moon from theirburrows. They are too far down in the ocean to see light or darknessor note the flow of the tides. The only solution appears to be somekind of internal “clock”!

But wait, how can that be? An internal clock would require thatthe action be triggered every 365 days, but this cannot be; since themoon’s movements are not synchronized with our day-night cycle,the movements of the sun, nor with our calandar.

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As a result, the moon’s third quarter in October arrives ten oreleven days earlier each year until it slips back a month.

Nor can it be that the worms in their holes are somehow able tojudge the phase of the moon by the light; for they spawn whetherthe sky is clear or completely overcast.

Well then, it must be that the worms send signals to each otherthrough the water! But that cannot be; for the palolo worms on thereefs of Samoa split apart at exactly the same time as the worms atFiji—which are 600 miles away! If some kind of signal could in-deed be sent over such a vast stretch of ocean, it would take weeksto arrive.

Indeed, the timing appears to have been pre-decided for theworm. There is no celestial or oceanic logic to it. The Pacific palolospawns at the beginning of the third quarter in October or Novem-ber; whereas the Atlantic palolo—near Bermuda and the WestIndies—also spawns at the third quarter, but always in June or Julyinstead of October! (Far away from both, a third palolo worm alsospawns yearly at the beginning of the third quarter in October orNovember.)

At any rate, the advantages are obvious. All the eggs and spermare together for a few hours, and a new generation is produced.Some other sedentary creatures also reproduce within narrowedtime limits. This includes oysters, sea urchins, and a variety of othermarine animals. But, with the exception of the California coast grun-ion, none do it within such narrowed, exacting time limits as thepalolo worm.

Our Creator made the honeybee, the portrait frog, the paloloworm—and everything else in our world. May we acknowledgeHim, honor Him, and serve Him all the days of our life. He de-serves our truest, our deepest worship and service; for He is ourCreator and our God.

2 - CONCLUSION

Few men in Europe have tried to eradicate the Bible and theknowledge of God from the minds of the people as did the Frenchinfidel, Voltaire. The Christian physician who attended Voltaire, dur-ing his last illness, later wrote about the experience:

“When I compare the death of a righteous man, which is like the

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close of a beautiful day, with that of Voltaire, I see the differencebetween bright, serene weather and a black thunderstorm. It wasmy lot that this man should die under my hands. Often did I tell himthe truth. ‘Yes, my friend,’ he would often say to me, ‘you are theonly one who has given me good advice. Had I but followed it, Ishould not be in the horrible condition in which I now am. I haveswallowed nothing but smoke. I have intoxicated myself with theincense that turned my head. You can do nothing for me. Send mean insane doctor! Have compassion on me—I am mad!’

“I cannot think of it without shuddering. As soon as he saw thatall the means he had employed to increase his strength had just theopposite effect, death was constantly before his eyes. From thismoment, madness took possession of his soul. He expired under thetorments of the furies.”

An American tourist, in France, went to the hotel keeper to payhis bill. The French hotel keeper said, “Don’t you want a receipt?You could be charged twice.” “Oh, no,” replied the American, “ifGod wills I will be back in a week. You can give me a receipt then.”

“If God wills,” smiled the hotel keeper, “do you still believe inGod?” “Why, yes,” said the American, “don’t you?” “No,” said thehotel keeper, “we have given that up long ago.”

“Oh,” replied the American, “well, on second thought, I be-lieve I’ll take the receipt after all!”

It was over a century ago, and a man and his nephew weretraveling west through the Colorado mountains. But they had losttheir way, and finally came upon a cabin among the trees. The countrywas still wild, and they were nervous when they knocked on thedoor. Could they sleep for the night? they inquired.

As they prepared for bed, they heard low mumbling words inthe adjoining room where the family (a husband, wife, and grownson) were. Almost in terror by now, the two men feared for theirlives. They were carrying considerable money. What should theydo? They only had one revolver.

After a time, they heard the chairs move, a shuffling, and morelow mumbling. This must be it! A plot was afoot to kill them. Withbeads of sweat on his cold brow and hands, the nephew crept softlyto the door and peered through the keyhole.

Coming back to the bed, his entire demeanor was changed.“Everything is all right,” he whispered, and explained what he

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saw. Immediately both fell soundly asleep and did not awake untilmorning.

Through the keyhole the young man had seen the family kneel-ing. They had read from the Bible, pushed back their chairs, andwere praying.

The two men knew they had nothing to fear; they were in thehome of genuine Christians.

“ ‘Have you studied Voltaire, Tom Paine, Robert Ingersoll, orany of those fellows?’ asked a passenger as he stood by the captainat the wheel of a steamship.

“ ‘No,’ replied the captain.“ ‘Well, you should. You can’t fairly turn down their argument

until you have thoroughly investigated for yourself,’ the passengerreplied.

“ ‘I’ve been captain of this ship a long time,’ said the captain.‘The charts that I work with tell me the location of the deep water,so I can safely guide the ship into port. When I first became a seacaptain, I decided that I would not investigate the rocks. The expe-rience I’ve known other chaps to have with the rocks has been suf-ficient warning for me.

“ ‘Over the years I’ve watched the lives of men who have readthe Bible everyday and loved God. Those were the men who hadsolid families, stayed away from drink, and helped other people inthe community.

“ ‘And I’ve also seen the others: the drunkards, drug addicts,criminals, and all the rest. Those are the ones who have nothing todo with God and the Bible, and who never attend church.

“ ‘No, I’ve made my decision; I stay away from the rocks. Mymother taught me the Bible when I was little, and I worship andserve the God of heaven who made all things. I’m not a bit inter-ested in anything that Ingersoll, Voltaire, and Paine have to offer.’ ”

The preacher was on the street corner telling the passing crowdsabout Jesus Christ. A crowd had gathered and was listening in-tently. Then a hoarse voice spoke up from the back.

“ ‘Preacher, you’ve got it all wrong. Atheism is the answer tohumanity’s problems. People get into trouble and go crazy whenthey hear about Christianity. Religion is bad for minds and ruins

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lives. Come on now,—prove to me that Christianity is real, and I’llbe quiet.’

Everyone was interested to see what would happen next.The preacher held up his hand for quiet, and then said this:“Never did I hear anyone state, ‘I was undone and an outcast,

but I read Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason and now I have beensaved from the power of sin.’ Never did I hear of one who declared,‘I was in darkness and despair and knew not where to turn, until Iread Ingersoll’s Lectures, and then found peace of heart and solu-tions to my problems.’

“Never did I hear an atheist telling that his atheism had beenthe means by which he had been set free from the bondage of li-quor. Never did I learn of anyone who conquered hard drugs byrenouncing faith in God.

“But I have heard many testify that, when as hopeless and help-less sinners, they had turned in their great need to the Son of Godand cast themselves upon Him for forgiveness and enabling powerto overcome sin—they were given peace of heart and victory overenslaving sin!”

Then, turning to the atheist, he said:“Who starts the orphanages, the city missions, and the work

among the poor? It is the Christians. Who owns and operates thetaverns, and manufactures the liquor sold in them? It is the atheists.Who risk their lives to help poor people in mission fields all overthe world? It is the Christians. Who runs the abortion mills and thehouses of prostitution? It is the atheists. Who are the most solid,kindly, industrious people in the nation? It is the Christians. Whooperates the gambling halls and the crime syndicates? It is the athe-ists.

“Who are the swindlers, bank robbers, and embezzlers? It isthe atheists. Who helps men put away their sins, live to bless oth-ers, and prepares men for death and eternity? It is the Christians.”

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Seabirds, such as gulls, terns, and skuas have built-in sunglasses. Theretinas of these birds contain minute droplets of reddish oil that screen outmuch of the sun’s blue light before it reaches the retina, thus reducing glarefrom the sky and reflected glare from the surface of the sea.

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The thorny acacia tree of central Africa can tell whenanimals are feeding too heavily on it. When that happens,it begins producing a chemical called tannin k. The tannincombines with other chemicals in the leaves, producing abad taste. Scientists found that the tannin level is normallyquite low, but within 15 minutes after leaf damage, tanninlevels in the leaves nearly doubled. In addition, they dis-covered that when this happens, the tree gives off an odor,warning other nearby acacia trees to be on guard. In re-sponse, they immediately begin producing more tannin intheir leaves also!

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A growing crisis in our world is a lack of freshwater.In fact, it is one of the greatest problems we will face inthis new century. Yet five-sixths of the world is filled withwater! The problem is how to inexpensively desalinize sea-water. Researchers have worked on the problem for years,without success. Extracting salt from ocean water contin-ues to be very expensive. Yet seabirds regularly do it, andwithout spending a penny. They drink seawater without anyproblems; for they have glands in their heads which dis-charge a highly concentrated salt solution into their nos-trils, from where it drips back into the sea. With such abuilt-in desalination plan, seabirds never need to drinkfreshwater. Without such a system, no bird could live inthe oceans and seas. Large doses of salt are poisonous, lead-ing to dehydration, overloaded kidneys, and a painful death.But if birds have such a highly successful method, why dowe not copy it? It is a proven success, highly miniaturized,and costs the birds nothing. It requires no fuel oil, electric-ity, coal, or propane. Yet our scientists cannot duplicatewhat those little runny-nosed birds do.

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The Lady’s slipper orchid has two stamens. The lip isshaped like a smooth slipper with enrolled edges, so theinsect cannot get out by the way it entered. So it must movetoward the back, or point of attachment to the stem, wherethere are two small exits. Heading that way, the insect mustfirst pass beneath a stigma which takes pollen from theinsect. Then it must brush past one or the other of the twostamens which sprinkle more on it. Leaving the flower, theinsect never goes to another flower on the same plant, be-cause only one flower will be open at any given time. Inthis way, self-pollination does not occur.

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The dwarf mistletoe in America builds up hydraulicpressure—equal to that found in a truck tire! It does this inorder to use that water pressure to catapult its seeds almost50 feet [152 dm] at a speed of close to 60 miles [96.5 km]per hour. The dwarf mistletoe is a water cannon!

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Rice is a land plant and must have oxygen in its rootto survive. Yet it must be submerged in water—often 15 ft[46 dm]—in order to grow and seed. The rice must growand keep its top above the water! In flood-prone areas, ricegrows as much as a foot a day in order to keep its topmostleaves above the surface of the flooded rice paddy. The riceplant draws in water through its exposed leaves, as well asthrough a sheath of air surrounding its submerged stalk.Rice gives off one carbon dioxide molecule for every oxy-gen molecule it takes in. But, because the carbon dioxidedissolves more quickly in water than does oxygen, a vacuumis created within the plant which pulls in yet more air! Youcould not draw air through a hose to depth of 15 feet, butthe rice plant can draw air down its stalk that far, becauseof that partial vacuum.

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The teeth of a rat are designed so the top two frontteeth go behind the bottom two, at just the right angle toproduce self-sharpening teeth. Engineers at General Elec-tric wanted to design a self-sharpening saw blade in orderto obtain exactly the right angle in relation to the metal itis cutting; so they studied the teeth of a rat. They foundthere was no other way it could be done as efficiently. As itslices through the metal, small pieces of the new blade arecut away by the metal, thus always keeping the blade sharp.That self-sharpening blade lasts six times longer than anyother blade they had previously been able to make. All be-cause the trained researchers studied the teeth of a rat.

The 6-inch goby fish acts as a sentry for a tiny shrimpwith which it shares a burrow on the seabed. Whenever theentrance to their burrow becomes littered with rubble, theshrimp, called the snapping shrimp, emerges to clear itaway, using its claws like a mechanical digger. While it isat work, the goby stands guard, with one of its antennaetouching the shrimp. The moment the goby discerns anydanger, it wriggles its body. The alerted shrimp at oncejumps back into the safety of the burrow—immediatelyfollowed by the goby.

German sheperd dogs and bloodhounds are superbtrackers. Each one has 220 million smell cells in its nose,compared to 5 million in the nose of a human.

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Because plants absorb the red and purple rays of light,the yellow and green ones are reflected back outward. Thisgives the landscape its great beauty. But, without this care-ful planning, if the yellow and green could have been ab-sorbed—red and purple would reflect outward! If that hadhappened, we would see deep blue and purple everywhere!Or if green, blue, and violet had been absorbed,—we wouldonly see brillian reds and oranges all about us! Instead, wehave soothing green as the predominate color of nature.